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Native of Tennessee; author, art collector, and Washington, D.C., lawyer. After his
death Ackland's art collection and an endowment for a museum was given to the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ackland's name was originally Acklen. Ackland travelled
widely, spending part of each year in London and Florida, and moved in society in
England and America. His papers, mostly dating from 1890, consist of extensive social
correspondence; manuscripts of short stories, novels, and plays written by him; notebooks
and scrapbooks on many subjects, especially reflecting social conditions during the
Victorian age and into the early 20th century; personal diaries, 1894-1900 and 1927-1928;
autograph letters and autographs of many British and American notables; reminiscences
of his childhood near Nashville, Tenn., his education, and his legal practice and
social life; and other items. Letters to Ackland include two, 1878 and 1879, from
Henry W. Longfellow, and an eight-page letter, 1880, from Sidney Lanier about what
he thought was involved in being a poet. Collected items incude single letters from
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1884, and James Russell Lowell,
1886, and two letters from John Greenleaf Whittier.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William Hayes Ackland Papers, #3547, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Bequest 1957

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Native of Tennessee; author, art collector, and Washington, D.C., lawyer. After his
death Ackland's art collection and an endowment for a museum was given to the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ackland's name was originally Acklen.

Ackland travelled widely, spending part of each year in London and Florida, and moved
in society in England and America. His papers, mostly dating from 1890, consist of
extensive social correspondence; manuscripts of short stories, novels, and plays written
by him; notebooks and scrapbooks on many subjects, especially reflecting social conditions
during the Victorian age and into the early 20th century; personal diaries, 1894-1900
and 1927-1928; autograph letters and autographs of many British and American notables;
reminiscences of his childhood near Nashville, Tenn., his education, and his legal
practice and social life; and other items. Letters to Ackland include two, 1878 and
1879, from Henry W. Longfellow, and an eight-page letter, 1880, from Sidney Lanier
about what he thought was involved in being a poet. Collected items incude single
letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1884, and James Russell
Lowell, 1886, and two letters from John Greenleaf Whittier.